Re: The idea of an own L4

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Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    - the dresden/karlsruhe guys don't really care about what we need/assume
>       is needed
>    - the dresden/karlsruhe guys don't give us access to development sources
>       and we dunno when an upcoming L4 will be released (we even don't know
>       whether this would solve our problems)
>
> Would it be possible to talk to the Dresden/Karlsruhe people and see
> if this can be solved before commencing a fork?

This didn't work, AFAIK.

>    Pistachio is distributed under a 2 clause bsd license that is
>    compatible with the GPL, AFAIK. This means we can simply license
>    new files under the (L)GPL. This is not the nicest, but OK, IMHO.
>
> Or simply stick with the 2-clause BSD license.
>
> To clarify a small error, we can license not only new files under the
> GPL, but we can license any changes that are made, and license the
> whole thing under the GPL.  Licensing such a fork under the LGPL is
> pointless by the way.  

I don't really understand that, but actually I only mentioned the LGPL
as the whole Hurd seems to be LGPL'd.

> All in all, a fork is the proper way to go, and was the proper way
> long before any code was written for the Hurd, it does not make any
> sense to depend on a third-party that has different goals than us.

Actually it was and always is a good idea to keep the codebase to manage
as small as possible. But however, we see it doesn't work.

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